A new paradigm for being a conscious being here and now on beautiful Planet Earth. A cross between "synthesis", "renaissance", "cryogenics" and "benthic"..."a flowering of creativity that's extremely cool and very deep." And the name of a yahoo e-group I started in 2002, now with around 1800 members, mostly friends of mine. Cheers Jeff

"It is the world soul and the force of history that now calls for, and causes,
the Djed to be raised. Like the flag with its emblem raised aloft in the thick
of battle to rally the flagging energies of the army, the Djed is a beacon
raised in the battle for the soul of the planet. And, like the warrior heroes who have throughout history stood tall as
champions of the many during times of great danger and crisis, the Djedi come
forth that the Djed may be raised."

HAPPY EGYPTIAN NU YEAR on 23 July.This
date marks what is known as the 'heliacal rising of Sirius', Sirius
being the second brightest star visible in our heavens and 'heliacal'
relates to our brightest star, the sun. On the 23rd of July, Sirius
once again becomes visible after having been in conjunction with the
sun for 70 days. This date was of great importance to the ancient
Egyptians, who celebrated their 'new year' then, which symbolized the
re-birth of Isis, represented by Sirius.

Last year at this time Liesbet and I were visiting our friend Arne
Erickson on Flinders Island, Tasmania, having just arrived for a visit
of what would eventually be four months long. In anticipation of the
Egyptian New Year coming up, I decided to build a hill-billy version of
a Djed pillar that we could erect in the center of a large medicine
wheel we had begun, in honour of our very first medicine wheel built at
Arne's there in 2009.

See the excerpts from Moira Timms below on the significance and
symbology of the Djed pillar. The 'raising of the Djed' symbolizes,
literally, the 'return of the Djedi.'

My mind reels in awe when I think back on our four months at Arne's
last year, how hard we worked and how much we got done in terms of
making a massive effort to grow all our own food, to live totally off
the grid, to maximize our creative output and take every dimension of
our relationships with each other and with the worlds of spirit and
infinite creativity to the next level many times over. Our ten gardens
and extensive 'Mother Earth Temple' are still there now, a testament to
our hard work and love of life.

Since we left, however, Arne has succumbed to acute 'gold fever' and
has essentially abandoned his place to the forces of nature, which is
ultimately not a bad thing, except for all the hard work and cleaning
up that needs to be done before Mother Earth can successfully and
healthily reclaim what is truly hers there. Liesbet and I hope to
return there sometime in the next couple months and pick back up on our
various projects, including helping Arne to take proper care of his
beautiful property which is in dire need of some love and attention.

For the past month Liesbet has been in Belgium visiting her family and old friends
for the first time since we were there in 2008. This is a wonderful
opportunity for her to re-connect with the land and culture where she
grew up, and to bring her amazing talent, creativity and very special
angel-energy to the northern hemisphere, who is also in very dire need
of love and caring from homo sapiens.

Liesbet's been seeing quite a few chem-trails up there; I've only seen
one in a month of being in New South Wales and Victoria, with more than
half the days being clear. No telling what goes on at night or above
the clouds, however. She is taking plenty of power-nutrients to help
combat her exposure to Fukushima radiation which continues to saturate
the entire planetary biosphere with thousands of synthetic
radio-nuclides. NO where is completely safe from it but the northern
hemisphere in general is vastly more contaminated than the southerly
latitudes, but only for the immediae future.

Right now Liesbet is camping out with her friend Anne somewhere in
southern Belgium for the weekend, and I'm visiting our great friends
Peter and Rosie at their new place near Yandoit, Victoria, where
they're working hard to create their own perma-cultural 'garden of Eden' with cool
cabins for rent and heaps of gardens and dams. The frogs here are
amazing, and some of them are the same kinds we heard at Arne's on
Flinders Island. Liesbet has heard frogs in Belgium, too, which is a
very good sign that the amphibians are still doing ok up there.

Liesbet and I have both been doing massive art projects, she painting
some chairs for her aunt and I did a large mural for my great friend
Toshi at Happy Organics in Goonengerry NSW, which is in the Wollumbin
(Mt. Warning) extinct volcanic crater near Byron Bay.

In the next few days I'll be working on another art project in the area
here and visiting some friends, then heading to Adelaide to do a mural
for a back-packer there. Liesbet is returning to Sydney towards the
end of August, at which point we'll catch up. Our course is not yet charted, but eventually we'll head for the
Flinders Ranges, to return to Wilpena Pound and then up to William
Creek, where the Painted Hills are, a landscape of immense colour. We
may then head up to the central desert to visit Uluru for the first
time together, and hopefully to Gosse's Bluff, an ancient meteor crater
on the way. After that we may head further north to Katherine and the
'top end' to get a dose of tropical warmth...Liesbet is having some
northern hemisphere summer right now, but it seems like I've been in
perpetual winter for over a year and a half.

I am concerned about Liesbet being so close to London with the Olympics
coming up soon and this being 2012...the year that 'something is going
to happen.'

Let us ALL tune into the highest frequencies of love and awakening that
we can access and RAISE OUR OWN INNER 'DJED PILLARS' in honour of the
Egyptian Nu Year...'nu' being the Greek letter symbolizing 'frequency.'

And
may
we all focus more of our energy on a sense of gratitude for all
that we have...we are all very lucky to be here now on Mothership
Earth. In this spirit I would like to say a big 'thank you' to ALL our
friends and family, 'mitakuye oyasin, but in particular, to Arne
'Balarni' Erickson, to John & Peggy-anne Garlick, to Barry
Brailsford and Cushla Denton, to Ian McAllister, to Jack & Jenny
Oldridge, to Peter Cholmondeley,
to Michael Spratt, to Martie Bear, Urs, Samitha & Toshi at Happy Organics,
to Peter, Rosie and Marianne here at Yandoit, to Liesbet's parents
Emile and Grietje, to Snoetje, Teddy, Wally, and Freddy, our wee
'creatures', and to my beautiful partner of five years, Liesbet
Verstraeten...the most wonderful person I have ever had the opportunity
to know...I love you!

"According to the
Mayan and Egyptian calendars, we are now in the “beak of time”, a “window” or a
“sacred moment in time” which occurs once every 26,000 years; at this time the winter solstice point of
our sun’s position in the sky gradually aligns with the hunab ku, the galactic
center in Sagitarrius. During this
window transformative consciousness streams into us via the sun and assists in
our creation of and ascension to a higher-dimensional reality continuum!

At the top is the
centrel symbol of Egyptian spirituality, the Djed pillar, Osiris’s
backbone and symbol of regeneration and cosmic stability and harmony. Within the upraised Djed is the Chinese
symbol “yung” meaning “eternity.” To
either side of the Djed pillar is the Eye of Horus, or Uadjat,
representing divine guidance and protection.
These uadjats are painted in their androgynous manifestations.

Counterclockwise,
the next grouping of symbols means “inspiration” or literally “light-life
moving within.” The next grouping
translates as “place of origin” “instantly “ or “ here and now.”

Then
beginning at 4:00 we have three glyphs;
the triangle with star and semi-circle is “Ast”, ancient name for
Sirius/Isis. Beside it is “tiet”, a bow
which is another name for Isis. Above
these is “sia”, meaning “intelligence of the heart.”

Finally, the
glyph in the next region is “atchaas”, or “primeval wisdom.”

The Djed was the Eqyptian symbol of human, planetary, and cosmic stability,
continuity, and regeneration,. As the cosmic axis, it was the "cylinder," the
column of light, that linked Earth to the pole star-the still point, or stable
point of reference, around which the heavens revolved. To raise the Djed was
also to erect the backbone of Osiris, the lunar, underworld, god of
regeneration. The Djed represented continuity of nature's cycles, as well as
ascension and resurrection of the human spirit.

Historically, the Djed was raised at crucial transitional times between cycles,
evoking light and stability to dispel darkness and chaos. Such periods were
the annual Winter solstices, the failing years of a reigning monarch or the
coronation of a new one. However, according to the texts of the Temple of Horus
at Edfu, the Djed served its greatest purpose and revealed its greatest mystery
at the ending of one world age, and the beginning of another.

The Djed

The Djed is a pillar, a type of the central World Tree,
representing stability, continuity, and regeneration. The Festival of The
Raising of the Djed dates back more than 5,000 years to predynastic times--as
does the Egyptian Book of the Dead which identifies the Djed as both the
backbone of Osiris and the support and backbone of the universe. The Djed,
however, is more than just an object; it is a mythic complex that existed long
before Osiris emerged from the dark realm of the collective unconscious.

Historically, the Djed was raised at crucial transitional times between
cycles, evoking light and stability to dispel darkness and disorder. Such
periods were the Winter solstices, the failing years of a reigning monarch or
the coronation of a new one. However, according to the texts of the Temple of
Horus at Edfu, the Djed served its greatest purpose and revealed its greatest
mystery at the ending of one world age and the beginning of another. This is
such time!

The Djed is the supreme unifying symbol of all polarities, connecting us to
the transcendent reality of the whole, the One. It symbolizes the macro and
microcosmic "axis." As the cosmic axis the Djed is the "cylinder," the column of
light linking the Earth to the pole star. It represents stability because it
aligns the North pole of Earth with the still-point of the revolving "dome" of
the heavens--the pole star. Beyond the pole star were/are the realms of the
"gods" and higher dimensions of being. In the microcosm, within us, the human
axis is the spinal column, the time-tunnel of the transformative journey from
the gross materialism of homosapiens to the Self-realization of homoChristos at
the crown chakra. It is through this chakra that we, too, are aligned with the
energies of the pole star.2

At a time when the planetary grid (Earth's geometrically arranged energy
system web) was understood and, it is believed, consciously administrated by a
global network of high initiate engineers, the Djed was a sacred instrument in
the powerful technology of "cosmos regeneration" (a domain explored by the work
of Reich and Tesla.) From the geodetic and astronomic perspective, the raised
Djed is the fixed reference point which makes firm the bond between Earth and
sky, evoking geophysical stability at a time of increased potential for Earth
changes. And, as we approach the end of the prophecy sequence and the final 20
years of the current cycle, the Djed replaces the prospect of Earth changes and
geophysical "pole shift" with that of "pole stability."3

The Djed is being raised again--globally, annually, at the Winter solstice
(and various other times--the 1996 Spring equinox, in particular) until the
closing of the cycle in 2012AD. Because Egypt is at the center of the Earth's
land mass, and the place where the Djed originated around the beginning of the
present cycle (3,100BC), it is appropriate that The Raising of the Djed, be
reinaugurated at its original site in Egypt. However, readers are reminded that
in the holographic model every sacred site, every community gathering, is also
the "Center"--as is every individual. Re-errecting the Djed today serves well its
ancient purpose, for it is the archetype of stability and continuity for the
current transitional phase.

BECOMING THE OSIRIS

Osiris "Djedi" was a title of Osiris, as the Great One,8 Lord of
the Universe (the universal, Self-generating life principle of the Center--i.e.
the transcendent Self). The "Djedi" were the "stable ones"--wisdom keepers of
one mind and one spirit who, as initiates of the Osirian mysteries, comprised
the living, terrestrial body of the archetypal, celestial Osiris. Contemporary
Djedi are self-selecting regenerators of cosmos. They are those who, regardless
of race or creed, are awakening to mission in service to the planet and the
epochal imperatives of stability, continuity and regeneration.

Egyptologist Sir Wallis Budge quotes the ancient expectation that "Since
Osiris was raised to life by the words and ceremonies which Thoth taught Isis,
and since Osiris has gained immortality by means of them, these same words and
ceremonies will raise us to life and give us immortality also."9 The
"secret Books of Thoth" containing those formulae no longer exist. But they are
deeply encoded within the repository of our collective dreamtime, informing our
DNA and waiting like seeds to be activated in due season by the right
evolutionary imperative and guiding initiatory archetype.

It is the world soul and the force of history that now calls for, and causes,
the Djed to be raised. Like the flag with its emblem raised aloft in the thick
of battle to rally the flagging energies of the army, the Djed is a beacon
raised in the battle for the soul of the planet. (Horus and Set are at it again
. . .) And, like the warrior heroes who have throughout history stood tall as
champions of the many during times of great danger and crisis, the Djedi come
forth that the Djed may be raised.

The Djedi sense, and know Osiris's arising as their own. As Osiris awakens
from the sleep of the aeon, the Djedi also "rise to the occasion," moving into
resonant relationship as the reconstellated members of the collective Osiris.
Therefore, as the mighty bones creek and the ancient One stirs, let the Djedi
return. This is the historical moment of our awakening and our call. The impulse
and the need for us to ritualize these events in global celebration arise,
naturally, in resonance with the mythic awakening of the archetype and because
it is now alive in each of us.